About Aletheia
Built because the institutions did not.
Aletheia is built by Lonia AI. The federal scaffolding that was supposed to protect access is being dismantled in real time. The people locked out cannot wait another decade for institutions to catch up.
Mission
Put access in the hands of the person who needs it.
Most accessibility tools are aimed at the institution: scanners that tell an organization what is broken, or overlays that promise to patch a site automatically. Those approaches depend on the publisher acting, and the publisher often does not.
Aletheia is aimed at the user. It does not wait for a website owner to add alt text or tag a PDF. It rebuilds the content for the person reading it, with that person in control of what is processed and what is kept. That is not a workaround. It is agency.
Why Aletheia exists
Decades of standards. Most of the web still fails.
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed in 1990. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 have guided digital accessibility for over two decades. The expectations are clear and long-standing.
The web has not caught up. WebAIM's 2026 analysis of the top one million home pages detected WCAG 2 failures on 95.9 percent of them. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than one in four U.S. adults live with a disability. That is a large population running into barriers every day, with no control over when, or whether, those barriers get fixed.
The enforcement is now moving backward. In April 2026 the Department of Justice extended the ADA Title II web accessibility deadlines by a year, to April 26, 2027 for public entities serving populations of 50,000 or more and April 26, 2028 for public entities serving populations under 50,000, and special district governments. In May 2026 the Department of Health and Human Services did the same for Section 504, moving its dates to May 11, 2027 and May 10, 2028. In June 2026 the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion narrowing Olmstead and advised federal agencies that longstanding integration guidance is not independently enforceable. The people locked out do not have another decade to wait.
After the federal government delayed ADA Title II and Section 504 compliance deadlines, it became clear that disabled users would keep being asked to wait for accessibility they already had a right to. Aletheia exists so they don't have to wait. It is the tool that gives them access to inaccessible content today, on their own device, without asking anyone's permission.
The name
Named for the goddess of unconcealment.
Aletheia was the Greek goddess of unconcealment - the personification of truth and disclosure. An image without alt text is not absent for a sighted user; it is concealed from a blind one. A scanned PDF is not unreadable to anyone with eyes; it is concealed from anyone using a screen reader. Aletheia removes the concealment and returns the content to the people it was always meant for.
The commitment
Three pillars, in every tier including Free.
Accessibility
Built to WCAG 2.2 Level AA and the Revised Section 508 standards; partially conformant today by self-evaluation, with the known gaps published. Partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Self-evaluation. No third-party accessibility audit has been conducted, and no SOC 2 or comparable certification is claimed. A formal audit by an independent third party is planned and has not yet been carried out. The tool that removes barriers cannot be a barrier itself.
Compliance
Detects personal and health identifiers on the device and warns before anything leaves it. GDPR-conscious data handling. Full audit trails. On-device processing keeps medical and student documents on the device, and data minimization is the default, not an upgrade.
Security
OAuth-only authentication. Zero password storage. Encrypted everything. There is no central document store, and these protections apply to every tier, including the Free tier.
What Aletheia is not
Not a replacement for the work institutions still owe.
Aletheia is not a replacement for the work institutions still owe. Organizations still have a legal and moral obligation to make their content accessible. If you run a website, fix it. If you publish documents, tag them. If you build forms, label them. The right answer is to make the original content accessible, not to push the cost of fixing it onto the people who were already harmed by it. Aletheia fills the gap now, whether or not anyone else catches up.
That is not a workaround. It is a right, and Aletheia is something no one can take away.
Questions can be sent to support@lonia.ai.